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Featured Product – Align Your Dreams with Your Power
Align Your Dreams with Your Power
By Perry Como
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Align Your Dreams with Your Power DVD
If you don’t think you can do something, why try! I know I should have used the cliché “you never know until you try”, but hey, maybe you can’t! You may never know until you think about it and weigh the facts carefully before making any attempt to do anything you’re not sure of. Let’s face reality folks. After performing a good task analysis, we just know some things are impossible to accomplish; I will never grasp advanced calculus nor will pigs ever fly.
Nancy Shugart is a motivational speaker. She also happens to have a disability, and goes well beyond just wondering. On her ProveThemWrong.com website she says the road you travel may have roadblocks and bumps but “recognize that quitting can never be an option; giving you the courage to complete what you have begun.” I don’t know if I would go that far. If the bumps become mountains and the roadblocks become road-side bombs, my inclination would be to bail out, turn around and go back. Sometimes “forward march” just doesn’t feel, to me, like the smart thing to do. This is why Nancy Shugart is a motivational speaker and I am not.
Her DVD is full of inspiration. It’s called, Align Your Dreams with Your Power: How to Succeed with a Disability. Nancy’s disability is blindness and by using her life experiences she motivates her audiences. She has been blind since the age of eight, but was determined to live her dream of becoming a teacher. After being told she would never teach in public schools because of her blindness, rather than giving up, she became more determined. She had a successful 21-year teaching career and is now involved in developing programs on self-determination for children with disabilities and presenting motivational and educational programs for youth and adult audiences.
It’s fun to watch Nancy speak. She is an accomplished magician and uses magic to illustrate her points –like it’s not all about the diagnosis, but about the attitude. She is not the only inspiration on DVD. There are others with disabilities who have accomplished careers and goals that many would consider unobtainable. Her DVD has all the encouragement and insight you would expect from a producer with a disability. It is closed captioned for people who are deaf or hard of hearing; audio described for people who are blind or visually impaired (with descriptions of the magic Nancy uses to reinforce her points), as well as an audio navigation menu that makes it possible for people who are blind or visually impaired to navigate the menu.
So, if motivation and inspiration is what you want, stop reading my blog and get Align Your Dreams with Your Power. It is for sale on the DisabilityTraining.com website.
